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i remember sitting down to finally watch Spartacus, thinking it would be standard sword-and-sandals fare, and realising within about 5 minutes that it was a political, civil-rights picture. “what if a white person was a slave?“ And there’s a compassion to his photography in it that I approve of.

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More things about this since it seems to have resonated: 1) It's a travesty that students are worried that they can't learn anymore in college; 2) Students can say things that tenured faculty could also be saying. But many of the people who teach things like writing (adjunct, etc.) feel they can't.

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ok ok now that I've said this I can't stop myself from weighing in. The long tradition of the big tech business goes something like this: you build a product which has basically zero marginal cost per user. You scale this to a billion users. Then you find a way to monetize those billion users.

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I've listened to the podcast and taken notes on each episode along with reading and sitting with various perspectives. The list you shared here? It doesn't show me that you've done the same—or that you are interested in any critiques of Hanford's framing or reporting.

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